Hi Marc, Marc Samendinger wrote:
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Any tips on what to do with my SuSE 9.0 box? </snip>
do you have an ftp-server behind the box? What I found out for SuSE 9.0 is, that ftp-connections through the firewall boost up the connection-usage. Besides you can find out, how close you are to the "kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet." messages, when you check the following: linux:~ # cat /proc/slabinfo | grep ip_conntrack ip_conntrack 32566 32772 320 2729 2731 1 linux:~ # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max 32760 Once the the number of currently active objects (in this case 32566) gets up to the number configured in ip_conntrack_max, then you'll get the "dropping packet"-message in /var/log/messages and then afaik all you can do is reboot. Greetings, Ralf